Change default location of journal files?

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If you can't find anything, they are highly compressible, you could consider turning on compression for the older files. Reading them is really not any slower in practice for a case like that.

I wouldn't recommend turning on compression for the whole folder though because it tends to fragment it, which isn't as much of a problem on SSD, but it can still become a problem in the extreme.
 

Unknown Zombie

Unknown Zombie
You can use the command mklink to do this...

Move your journals where you want them, e.g.: d:\captains_logs\

Use an elevated command prompt (open command prompt as admin) to make a link from where the game expects to find the logs to the new place you moved them to:

mklink /d "c:\Users\<username>\Saved Games\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous" "d:\captains_logs"

  • Replace <username> in that command with your windows personal folder where all of your files are stored.
  • Make sure you use the /d argument, which tells the command you're trying to link directories.
  • You will have to remove the Elite Dangerous folder inside the Frontier Developments folder before the link can be made because the command cannot overwrite existing files/directories. Make sure everything is moved!!!
 

rootsrat

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rootsrat
Unknown Zombie said:
You can use the command mklink to do this...

Move your journals where you want them, e.g.: d:\captains_logs\

Use an elevated command prompt (open command prompt as admin) to make a link from where the game expects to find the logs to the new place you moved them to:

mklink /d "c:\Users\<username>\Saved Games\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous" "d:\captains_logs"

  • Replace <username> in that command with your windows personal folder where all of your files are stored.
  • Make sure you use the /d argument, which tells the command you're trying to link directories.
  • You will have to remove the Elite Dangerous folder inside the Frontier Developments folder before the link can be made because the command cannot overwrite existing files/directories. Make sure everything is moved!!!
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Ah, I should have thought of that! Many thanks :)
o7
 

rootsrat

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rootsrat
Neilski said:
I'm impressed that your journals are taking enough space to create an issue. Mine seem to be a mere 300 MB. How much space are we talking about here? :)
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They're only part of the issue, but

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And they only go back to 2017, sadly I lost everything before that in a... let's call it a disk incident :D

Another part of the issue is this:

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:D
 

kofeyh

kofeyh
rootsrat said:
They're only part of the issue, but

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And they only go back to 2017, sadly I lost everything before that in a... let's call it a disk incident :D

Another part of the issue is this:

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:D
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EDDiscovery can be installed to any drive; if you have a single drive, I'd actually suggest (if possible) to get a second (ideally flash based, so NVME or SSD) and move elite and the logs to it. This takes the pressure off the OS drive, and will actually help Elite perform a little better as disk access can happen in parallel with OS access.

You can also toggle compression on for the EDDiscovery log path, which will claim back a moderate bit of space, and the compression Windows uses is more tuned for speed than ratio, so EDDiscovery probably won't care, beyond taking a bit longer to load.
 

rootsrat

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rootsrat
GroG79 said:
There are better ways to save disk space on your c: drive

Run Windirstat (*as admin) to find where all your free space went
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I'm actually using TreeSize for stuff like that :) WDS is a bit ancient at this stage tbh. But thanks for the recommendation :)
 

CMDR_Brantford of FLC

CMDR_Brantford of FLC
Unknown Zombie said:
You can use the command mklink to do this...

Move your journals where you want them, e.g.: d:\captains_logs\

Use an elevated command prompt (open command prompt as admin) to make a link from where the game expects to find the logs to the new place you moved them to:

mklink /d "c:\Users\<username>\Saved Games\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous" "d:\captains_logs"

  • Replace <username> in that command with your windows personal folder where all of your files are stored.
  • Make sure you use the /d argument, which tells the command you're trying to link directories.
  • You will have to remove the Elite Dangerous folder inside the Frontier Developments folder before the link can be made because the command cannot overwrite existing files/directories. Make sure everything is moved!!!
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Greetings, I just found this because I was wondering the same thing. The one question I have is sbout the last line.

Just to be clear, When you say you need to remove the Elite Dangerous Folder before the link can be made, I presume you mean one should copy over the journal flies first to the new directory you want the game to point at (D:/EDJournals for example).. delete the original Frontier Developments folder (which contains all those journals) and then type in your mklink command?
 
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